To be or not to be – modern day version

Shakespeare’s “To be or not to be” modified to suit modern times……..

To do, or not to do, — that is the dilemma: —
Whether its nobler for us to suffer,
The pains and blames of ol’outrageous boyfriends,
Or to spread arms and explore a sea of opportunities,
And by breaking up with them? — To forgo, to weep, —
No more; and by a weep to say we end
The heart-ache, and the innumerable natural shocks
That we are exposed to, — its’ a pain
We want devoutly to be worshipped. To enjoy, to weep; —
To weep, and finally dream: — ay, there’s the fun;
For after a small weep, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this regret and recoil,
Must take a pause: there is some prospect
That makes hope for our suburbun life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The junta is wrong, right we are is highly likely,
The pangs of maara maari, the traffic’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the lack of funds
That ‘cool’ guys, the unworthy takes,
When we ourselves are stuck with naives,
With just a love? Can their children we bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that is the dread of finding no one after them —
The undiscover’d territory, from whose bourn
No love may come, — puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know naught of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought;
And we are left with regret and boredom,
With this regard, our dreams turn awry,
And lose the name of ’simply fun’.

~ by wtfnessintheair on April 6, 2009.